9:45 PM,
Aug. 30, 2012

Bossier and Plain Dealing will face Airline and Arcadia, respectively, in Friday night's season openers.

Written by

Jason Pugh
jpugh@shreveporttimes.com

Even as forecasts showed Hurricane Isaac pushing its way toward northwest Louisiana, John Ware held out hope.

The first-year North Webster head football coach wanted only one thing aside from safety from the storm - the chance for his Knights to host Haynesville at their regularly scheduled time. Given Ware's and North Webster principal Jeff Franklin's ties to Haynesville, the Knights were going to try everything possible to stay on schedule to face their bitter rivals.

"There's no doubt we wanted to play on Friday night," said Ware, who grew up in Haynesville and coached at the school. ...